Mickey Hughes (boxer)


Michael Hughes, also known by the nickname of "Mickey", is an English amateur welterweight and professional welter/light middleweight boxer of the 1980s, and 1990s who as an amateur won the 1984 Amateur Boxing Association of England welterweight title, against Robert Thomas, boxing out of St Pancras ABC , and represented Great Britain at welterweight in Boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States, defeating Paul Rasamimanana of Madagascar, and losing to Rudel Obreja of Romania, and as a professional won the British Boxing Board of Control British light middleweight, and Commonwealth light middleweight title, and was a challenger for the BBBofC Southern Area welterweight title against Trevor Smith, Commonwealth welterweight title against Donovan Boucher, BBBofC British welterweight title against Del Bryan, and World Boxing Association Inter-Continental light middleweight title against Shaun Cummins, his professional fighting weight varied from, i.e. welterweight to, i.e. light middleweight.